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Senate Democrats Poised for Power Grab
Fox News ^ | 23 Dec 2010 | N/A

Posted on 12/23/2010 9:29:22 PM PST by Jet Jaguar

Senate Democrats are going to be working over the Christmas break to deliver a lump of coal to the American people in the form of a radical changing of the Senate's rules. This is a naked power grab by liberals in the Senate pure and simple.

The National Journal reports that Senate Democrats are laying the groundwork to chip away at the filibuster on January 5, 2011. They are going to push the idea that a simple majority of the Senate can abolish the filibuster rules, or radically change the rules, in a new Congress.

Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/filibuster/2010/12/23/senate-democrats-poised-power-grab#ixzz190FZDuFW

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; 20110105; communists; congress; democrats; fillibuster; harryreid; rats; reid; senate; tomudall; udall; ussenate
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To: bluejay

The senate numbers up in ‘12 are 23 Rats and 10 GOP.


101 posted on 12/24/2010 6:38:03 AM PST by JPG (There is hope for America and her name is Sarah.)
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To: onyx

Next, a new “rule” that allows legislation to be passed by the Senate alone, bypassing the House.

Only half kidding. If Democrats could get away with it, they would.


102 posted on 12/24/2010 6:39:04 AM PST by denydenydeny (Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak-Adams)
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To: OrangeHoof
Chances are, Republicans take the Senate and the White House in 2012 and then just watch these people whine and pout when we do the same and cite the precedent that the Dems did it first.

When's the last time Republicans have ever "done the same thing" as Dims to push through legislation? Most of them are gutless wonders, spineless RINOs, and Jello fellows who worry more about being "liked" by their opponents than they do about actually representing their constituents.

103 posted on 12/24/2010 6:40:46 AM PST by arasina (So there.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

These guys better be careful what they wish for. Odds are pretty high that they will lose their majority in 2012.


104 posted on 12/24/2010 6:43:22 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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To: dagogo redux

IMO there will be that day, when people KNOW this has gone too far and now their Freedom is a stake.

American’s have sacrificed too much over the course of our history to remain silent.

The unfortunate reality is that once a tipping point has occurred then the resulting conflict will be extreme.

The biggest failure of all, will be with the Free Press because if they were doing their jobs correctly America would be well informed of its current trajectory.


105 posted on 12/24/2010 6:53:47 AM PST by R0CK3T
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To: Jet Jaguar

With this and the abuse of reconciliation it should be open season on Democrats when the GOP retakes the Senate.


106 posted on 12/24/2010 6:58:01 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Tzimisce
No law they pass will get through the House next year.

I'll bet you are wrong. If they change the rules for their own chamber, the House GOP will simply accept it. This lame-duck session established a pattern: defiant talk followed by acquiescence in whatever the Dems wanted. It's a pattern we're likely to see next session.

107 posted on 12/24/2010 7:05:55 AM PST by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Any “Senate Rules” experts.... it would seem to change a rule requires more than a simple majority, maybe even a 2/3’s majority. No?

The dems must be counting on the Pack-o-RINOS, otherwise just another poorly thought out dingyharry BS trip.


108 posted on 12/24/2010 7:13:07 AM PST by dusttoyou ("Progressives" are wee-weeing all over themselves, Foc nobama)
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To: freekitty; Clintonfatigued; MamaDearest; libertyhoundusnr; flat; Piquaboy; SouthTexas; Kaslin; ...

There are more Senate RATs up in 2012 than Republicans. The Tea Party has all those Senate RAT and RINOs names on their high priority “vote out” list. These loathsome “enemies” of freedom and haters of our Constitution” can count on their defeat in November 2012. We The People won’t tolerate traitors who vote to destroy our nation and work to destroy our children and grandchildren’s future any more than our forefathers put up with it.

Murkowski and her ilk can count on their defeat when they come up for re-election or until their dirt is exposed and they’re run out of office.


109 posted on 12/24/2010 7:22:40 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: lquist1

There are still plenty of RINOs who didn’t come up for re-election this year. They’ll cave to the RATS and we’ll have all three branches destroying the nation.


110 posted on 12/24/2010 7:40:31 AM PST by bgill (K Parliament- how could a young man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: goodnesswins
THEY are really asking for it, aren’t they....

Yeah? The Repubs are mumbling something about Senate Rules and will do nothing to stop the Dems. They rarely do. So get used to it.

111 posted on 12/24/2010 7:42:18 AM PST by pabianice
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To: eyeamok
THE HOUSE TRULY DOES RUN THE SHOW, if they realized it.

Great post but I would offer one small amendment!

THE HOUSE TRULY DOES RUN THE SHOW, if they can be made to realized it.

112 posted on 12/24/2010 7:49:57 AM PST by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: Ranald S. MacKenzie; fieldmarshaldj; Impy; Clintonfatigued; Crichton; Coop; BillyBoy

Changing the rules on a day other than the first day of a Congress (which is when the rules are initially adopted) would take 67 votes. So if the Democrats are dumb enough to get rid of the Senate filibuster at a time in which the GOP will have a large House majority (so there won’t be any liberal House-passed bills for the GOP Senate minority to filibuster in the first place) and just two years before the GOP will definitely have a Senate majority (I have no doubt that the GOP will pick up at least 6 seats in 2012, and it only needs 3 or 4) and probably the presidency as well, then they’re bigger idiots that I thought. The only possible benefit the Dems would get from not having the filibuster rule in effect would be for judicial nominations over the next two years, but the GOP has never filibustered a judicial nominee, and then in two years the GOP Senate would have carte blanche to pass the entire conservative agenda.


113 posted on 12/24/2010 7:51:48 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Senate Democrats Poised for Power Grab

Proving yet again that Dimocrats do not understand the first rule of politics which is:

When you find yourself in a hole STOP DIGGING!!!

114 posted on 12/24/2010 7:59:39 AM PST by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: Lazamataz

[ Bet ya no one retires, or even DIES. lol]

Not without help anyway, and I certainly wouldn’t put it past these evil Socialist bastards. Hope the Supreme Court justices who are on the side of the Constitution and the rule of law have good security.


115 posted on 12/24/2010 8:02:39 AM PST by KansasGirl
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“With a GOP controlled House, they would be cutting their own throats if a simple majority could end filibuster and bring bills to a vote.”

It’s all about appointing as many judges as they can before Obama leaves. Maybe they also have some vain hope of passing an amnesty bill if they drug the members of the House.


116 posted on 12/24/2010 8:09:37 AM PST by devere
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To: JPG
The senate numbers up in ‘12 are 23 Rats and 10 GOP.

Jan 3 2013 is WAY TOO long to wait - the damage these liberal morons will inflict between now and then will be irreversible. The Kenyan will sign into law all they can jam through and IMHO he will be re-elected. The State run media and Hollywierd have way too much invested in this empty suit and the GOP still has not found its backbone - e.g. START and DADT.

A vacancy on SCOTUS will be the end of America for certain if it occurs between now and Jan 3 2013.
117 posted on 12/24/2010 8:16:10 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Senate RINOs eager to take a dive...


118 posted on 12/24/2010 8:42:23 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 701 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

And most of these A-Holes continue to get voted in. As a nation as a whole (FReepers not included), we are politically ignoramuses.


119 posted on 12/24/2010 8:42:52 AM PST by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

They can also pay back the money they stole from us.


120 posted on 12/24/2010 8:46:40 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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